Edward Archer

Edward Archer (1985-) was an Islamic State sympathizer from the United States who was arrested for injuring a Philadelphia police officer in a shooting.

Biography
Edward Archer was born in 1985 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He converted to Islam and became obsessed with the Islamic State, pledging allegiance to it. On 7 January 2016 he ambushed police officer Jesse Hartnett's police car shortly before midnight and fired 11 rounds, shooting directly through the window. Archer was wearing long white robes, and when he was captured he claimed that he did the attack in the name of Islam. The attack was the same day as a failed attack on a French police officer by Sallah Ali in Paris, and it was the first anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo massacre of 2015 by al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.